Recognizing & Solving Problems

Over this semester I have been learning quite a few new things. First, I have learned how to use new digital tools that will, although it may not seem like it now, help me in complete future research more efficiently. Second, how to put my incomplete work online (as discussed in my previous post). Finally though, I have learned that I don’t need to suffer on my own. My mind was blown by this idea. “What?!?! Dr Graham you are saying that we can share our issues with other people and ask for help?” No word of a lie that was a hard concept to wrap my head around.

Therefore, following these along with these lessons, I am moving forward and using them to help solve problems I am having. For example, I am writing down every single thing I do for each tutorial in Notational Velocity, one of the many new tools that I have been turned on to as I slowly gain more knowledge about its usefulness. Also, I am posting all my notes on this blog, below you can see the notes that I took yesterday (February 9, 2016) when I attempted the Command Line Tutorial for a second time.

When doing this tutorial for a second time I was able to complete it successfully despite the couple times that I thought I had done something wrong, I was later assured that I had not done anything wrong. Check them out and let me know if you have any suggestions.

Digital History – Command Line Tutorial Notes 2

- typed in pwd command to orient myself then hit the ls command to get a listing of the files and directories within my current location which is /users/hollispeirce1. These are: